Virus Scare

Bhubaneswar: The Odisha government, which has taken expeditious steps to conduct RT-PCR test and genome sequencing of the people who have recently returned from the United Kingdom, is concerned over...

Bhubaneswar: In line with an earlier Odisha government order, the Bhubaneswar Municipal Corporation (BMC) on Monday issued an advisory to “explicitly prohibit” large social gatherings (read parties) and celebrations on...

Bhubaneswar: The COVID-19 toll in Odisha rose to 1,864 on Monday with three more persons, including an infant, succumbing to the disease in the last 24 hours. Of the new...

Bhubaneswar: The COVID-19 positive tally in Odisha went up to 3,28,738 on Monday with 234 new cases reported overnight. Of the new cases reported from 24 districts, 136 are in...

New Delhi/ Hyderabad: A two-day dry run of COVID-19 vaccine programme starts in four states — Andhra Pradesh, Punjab, Gujarat and Assam — on Monday. With focus on managing possible...

New Delhi: COVID-19 was initially considered as a disease affecting the lungs and circulatory system of the human body. However, with time evidence showed that the infection started affecting other...

Geneva: Director General of World Health Organisation (WHO) Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus has expressed concern over poor spending to prevent outbreak of epidemics. He warned that COVID-19 will not be the...

Mumbai: The Oxford-AstraZeneca vaccine being made at the Serum Institute in Pune will "protect 95 per cent of patients" and is "as effective as the Pfizer and Moderna vaccines", Pascal...

London: German pilot Samy Kramer traced a giant syringe in the sky, marking the start of COVID-19 vaccination drive in the European Union. The 20-year-old pilot used a GPS device...

Bhubaneswar: As many as 319 patients recovered from COVID-19 against 303 new positive cases across Odisha in the last 24 hours. Of the recovered patients, 44 are from Khurda, 35...